Printing-machine.



B. OCUMPAUGH, 2D. PRINTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 3, 1914.

1,, 1 07,829. Patented Aug. 18, 19m

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EDMUND OCUMPAUGH, 21)., or ROCHESTER, new YORK.

PRINTING-MACHINE.

Specification. 0r Letters IEatent.

Patented An. 18, 1914.

Application filed April 3, 1814. Serial No. 829,314.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be .it known that I, EDMUND Ooun- PAUGI-I, 2d, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Minn-cc and State ofNew York, have invented certain new. and useful Improvements inPrinting-Machincs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to printing-ma.- chines, such as check-printingmachines and the like, of the type in which a rotatableor otherwisemovable type-carrying member is moved manually to bring the varioustypes selectively into operative position.

The object of the invention is to provide a machine of the kind inquestion with a manually-operable member by which the type-carrier maybe quickly and accurately moved to any required position, without strainupon the eyes of the user. To this end I employ a rotatablemamially-operable device provided, in the usual manner, with a circularscale of graduations, but in addition to such graduations I employ aseries of projections, arranged radially, or otherwise, at one side ofthe scale and so located as to correspond in positionwvith certain maindivisions of the entire number represented by the scale, theseprojections thus serving to indicate at a glance, or even by the senseof touch, the general position of the scale, so that close inspection.of the scale is required only in finding the required subdivisionsthereof.

The accompanying drawing is a perspective view ot a portion of 1achecleprinting machine embodying the present invention.

The invention is illustrated as ei'nbodied in a ol'ie.ckn'intiiigmachine of awcll-known form, this machine having the usual rotatabletype-cylinder 3 journaled in a casing -.t. The check-blank rests upon ahorizontal table 5, and is pressed against the type by amanually-operable platen 6. The table 5 is provided with a slot 7immediately beneath the platen, and the operative row of type, for eachparticular settingof the machine, is that which registers with thisslot, through which the paper of the blank is pressed against the type.

In order to rotate the type-cylinder to bring the type-rows selectivelyinto operative position, a shait't S, by which one end of thetype-cylinder is journaled, extends through. an end of the casing andcarries the manually-rotatable device in which the present inventionresides. This device, as shown in the drawing, comprises a neck 1)carrying, on its outer end, a disk-like head it) which can be easilygrasped by the hand. At the inner end of the neck is fixed a disk .11provided, on its periphery, with a scale \Vhere the machine is adaptedto print checks of denominations from one to one-- hundred the scale isdivided into one-hundred parts, as shown. Coii uzrating with the scaleis a looped-shaped member 123, fixed to the casing and providing asight-opening through which the significant number on the scale is read.To assist in setting the machine certain nnnnbcrs, at intervals at liveunits, are set oil from the others by means of a linickgrouud ofdifierent color.

\Vhile the scale 12 and the indicatir .12) are sul'licient in themselvesfor setting the type-cylinder to any required position, it has beenfound in practice that the main divisions oil. the scale are notsulliciently set o'tl' to enable the machine to be manipulatml asrapidly and easily as is den-able, and ac :e-rdingly, in the presentinvention, I employ one or more of a number of analogous devices forindicating at once, and without close observation, the general positionoccupied at any particular time by the scale. Projectingradially.ilironi the head .10 are. four arms or spokes let, 15, 1(3 and17, respectively. These spokes not only. i acili- Late the manualrotation of the head by atl'ording convenient hand-holds, but they alsoare so located as to correspond in position with four main divisions oi.the scale. In the illustratedscale these divisions occur at the numbers25, 50, and 100, respectively. In order to enable the user todistinguish between these four divisions each of the spokes isdistinctively marked. On the ends of the spokes numbers are placed,these numbers being, respectively, 25, 50, 75, and either or the letterA further device to the same end resides in varying the formation of thespokes, so that they may be readily distinguished from each other by'ight, or even by the sense of touch. F or this purpose the spoke 14 isshown as provided with a single knob or annular projection 18, while thespokes 15 and 16 have, res 'iectivcly, two and three such projections,and the spoke 17 is provided with a long cylindrical extremity. Inmanipulating the spokes the user can distinguish between them by thesense of touch, if the thumb be the eye is not substantially divertedfrom the scale 12.

I cla1m:- l. A setting-device, tor printing-maclunes and the like,eomprisin a manually-rotatai ble member provided with an annulargraduated scale, and with a series of projections located at one sideoi? the scale and spaced to corespond with main divisions of the scale.

and the like, COlflpIlSlng a manually-rotatable member provided with anannular graduated scale, and with a series of projections spaced tocorrespond with main divisions of the scale, said projections beinglocated at one side of the scale and bearing sensible characteristics bywhich they may be distin guished from each other and identified with thecorresponding scale-numbers.

3. A setting-device, for printing-machines and the like, comprising amanually-rotatable member provided with an annular graduated scale, andwith a series of radial. projections, at one side of the scale,constituting hand-holds by which the scale may be turned and spaced tocorrespond to main divisions of the scale.

4;. A setting device, for printing-machines and the like, comprising amanually-rotatable member provided with an annular graduated scale, andwith a series of radial projections, at one side of the szale,constitut- A setting-device, for printing-1nachines I main dlvisions ofthe scale, whereby the ing hand-holds by which the scale may be turnedand spaced to correspond to main divisions of the scale, saidprojections bearing sensible characteristics by which they may bedistinguished from each other and identified with the correspondingscalenumbers.

A settingdevice, for printing-machines and the like, comprising amanually-rotatable member provided with an annular graduated scale, andwith a series of radial projections, at one side of the scale, spaced tocorrespond to main divisions of the scale, said projections constitutinghand-holds by which the scale may be turned and being dilierently formedto afford sensible indications of their position with relation to thescale.

6. A setting-device, for printing-machines and the like, comprising amanually-rotatable member provided with an annular graduated scale, ahead at one side of the scale, and a series of spokes, projectingradially from the head and spaced to correspond to spokes serve both tofacilitate manipulation oi the head, and to indicate approximately theposition of the scale.

7. A setting-device, for printing-machines and the like, comprising amanually-rotatable member provided with an annular graduated scale, ahead at one side of the scale, and a series of spokes,projectingradially from the head and spaced to correspond to maindivisions of the scale, whereby the spokes serve both to facilitatemanipulation of the head, and to indicate approximately the position ofthe scale, each spoke bearing, near its outer end, a distinguishing markby which it may be identified with the corresponding scale-number.

EDMUND OCUMPAUGH, 2n

WVitnesses D. ,GURNEE, FARNUM F. DORSEY.

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